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Kaiser Permanente’s first ever hospital design challenge, Small Hospital, Big Idea, came to a surprise ending in March: a tie.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late last week a delay to the implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. CMS will not require data collection from manufacturers and group purchasing organizations until Jan. 1, 2013.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to develop verification data and services to support coverage and eligibility infrastructure for health insurance exchanges and seeks industry information about applications that are available.
A recently released interdisciplinary study revealed that very low birth weight infants fare better in hospitals that have earned Recognition for Nursing Excellence (RNE) and are designated Magnet Hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
While most states are waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, two states – Vermont and Minnesota – are already harnessing it to both establish health insurance exchanges and to drive healthcare delivery and payment reforms.
In the latest salvo against the Affordable Care Act, Ways and Means Committee Republicans published a report this week that contends employers would save money by dropping coverage for employees and shifting them to the state health insurance exchanges and paying the $2,000 per employee penalty for doing so.
New jobs in the healthcare sector continued to grow in April, with the sector adding 19,000, reported the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday $10.4 million in grants will be dispersed to rural health providers over three years.
The 2012 presidential election will be determined by a handful of voters in a handful of states, Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report told an audience of healthcare real estate professionals at BOMA International's Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facilities Conference in Atlanta on Thursday.
There's a snag in the proposed meaningful use Stage 2 rule, and it concerns whether doctors need to be good at typing. Depending on how the final requirements for Stage 2 play out, they might have to be.